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Install Puppy but keeping Windows

Hello,

I want to install Puppy on my old machine, but it has a LOT of music and other things on it. So I want to keep my Windows with all of the files, but I also want to install Puppy. Also I still want to use Photoshop which cannot be used on Puppy.
I didn't tried to install Puppy, because I didn't wanted to accidentally format my harddisk.
My harddisk is 80gb, and I've got only one, so I need to partition it instead of using another HDD.
Anyone experienced with this?

Boot up from PartedMagic LiveCD and resize partitions. Create two new partitions.

* 6GB, format it in ext3 filesystem
* 512MB, format it in SWAP

Start Puppy installation and select Manaul Partitioning. Select ext3 partition and assign it / mount point. Installer will detect SWAP partition and setup dual boot itself. You will have choice to boot up either OS at startup.

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I use Damn Small Linux aswell, it works great but it everytime needs to open te MyDSL extensions so it's not the most handy OS.

I have a 667Mhz Intel Celeron CPU, 64MB of SDR-SDRAM and (as said) a 80GB harddisk. I was planning to use it as a server system, but with the lack of RAM I couldn't use the MySQL server and I'm now waiting 'till I have enough for I think a Mac Mini (low energy, so cheap for 24/7 server) of some sort of notebook.